WorksheetsLeaves of Grass
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
The most famous poem from Leaves of Grass. It is composed of vignettes.
I Hear America Singing
Song of Myself
On the Beach at Night Alone
America
More abundant
Breadth
Ampler
Repel
Slough
Whitman spent his early years working as a printer and as a _____________.
teacher
journalist
mechanic
shoemaker
In "I Hear America Singing" what is Whitman acknowledging?
The celebration of the death of an "old self"
That everything, living or not, is connected
A wide array of American workers
The great outdoors
A ___________ is often an ordinary object, event, person, or animal to which we have attached extraordinary meaning and significance.
Consonant
Symbol
Onomatopoeia
Pun
What is the theme of "On the Beach at Night Alone"?
Everything is connected
Children are the future
America is made of many nations
A celebration of the "self"
What is "free writing"?
A technique in which a person writes continuously for a set period of time without regard to spelling or grammar
A particular order in which related events, movements, or things follow each other.
An article written by or on behalf of an editor that gives an opinion on a topical issue.
The use of vowel sounds within words near each other in a sentence
In Whitman's definition ________ does not repel the past or what it has produced. It accepts the lessons of the past with calmness.
A citizen
The Universe
Europe
America
A story in which characters, settings and actions stand for something beyond themselves.
Assonance
Alliteration
Anaphora
Allegory
In "I Hear America Singing" Whitman mentions all of the following professionals except the....
Carpenter
Woodcutter
Realtor
Shoe-maker
Lack of metrical regularity and conventional rhyme
Lyric
Free Verse
Haiku
Rhyme Scheme
